Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to reach the tens of millions in our nation and the tens of thousands in our communities , how are we to do it if not through church planting ? |
| 2 | ‘ And that bastard , ’ he added , nodding towards Luke , ‘ is not worth doin' time for . ’ |
| 3 | And as Chancellor , if not as Transport Secretary , he might be sufficiently prominent to get that invitation to Desert Island Discs and have the Shotts Pipe Band playing over the airwaves . |
| 4 | Regionalism is not about service delivery . |
| 5 | The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general . |
| 6 | Is it not clear , in retrospect , that our right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was absolutely right when she went to Rome in October 1990 and warned our partners that the talks should be about world free trade , and not about cloud cuckoo land — that is , political and economic union , which was doomed to failure in any event ? |
| 7 | It 's not about police corruption . |
| 8 | The argument in the 1990s is not about resource depletion but about changes in climate which will concern life and health as well as , ultimately , wealth . |
| 9 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 10 | The scope for the voluntary sector and not for profit activity in the nineteen nineties is immense , it will not be expansion just for its own sake , but principled entrepreneurial activity aimed to make the most of opportunities on behalf of the community . |
| 11 | All babies need feeding and changing and there are not too many ways of doing it ; the range and subtlety of young babies ' gestures is restricted ( they do not for instance converse ) , and in response , mothers tend to simplify and exaggerate their own gestures . |
| 12 | My little excesses are not for public Access |
| 13 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 14 | Finally , as liver failure was predominant in at least 16 of the 29 patients dying within six weeks and as our score gives an objective information about the outcome of the patient ( unlike the classicacl Child-Pugh classification which is subjected to changes after improvement of the patient 's status ) cirrhotic patients with their first , potentially lethal , variceal bleeding should be early stratified as candidates or not for liver transplantation and the decision to proceed to transplantation should be considered in the high risk group defined by us . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , besides Chuck Berry and the others , but that 's why they got it , that 's why they understood generally , because they were so close to the music that was played by black people — not for radio airplay , but because that 's what was in their hearts . |
| 16 | As with the Region data is available for the administrative county and not for Tyne side . |
| 17 | They take on this work , not for pin money , but to provide for their family 's basic needs . |
| 18 | The only public services are electricity — not for street lighting , but as power for television , the most important bearer of promises to those whose lives are lived at the limit of endurance ; and of course , buses , to get the people to work . |
| 19 | As its origins suggest , UDC was designed for detailed indexing of documents and not for shelf arrangement . |
| 20 | Not for pose value , you understand , rather to hide incriminating evidence . |
| 21 | In 1979 ( November ) bank loans outstanding to individual customers , not for house purchase , totalled over £5,000 million , including what had been advanced on bank credit cards . |
| 22 | The proposal is not for freight traffic to go through King 's Cross . |
| 23 | As Moser revealingly wrote of the Government Social Survey : " the survey exists to collect data required for administration , not for party politics " . |
| 24 | The end doors , with sliding glass-panel window for ventilation , are not for passenger use . |
| 25 | Not , not for Salisbury Park . |
| 26 | For most of them there is a cure ; but as yet not for HIV infection . |
| 27 | Virgin took its tone from Richard 's unkempt appearance , his apparent indifference to material luxuries , the fact that his money went not towards Savile Row suits or extravagant limousines but back into the company . |
| 28 | Module is not a package/Module is not of type Package |
| 29 | It remains to be seen how many of Hammer 's one hundred Old Master , Impressionist and nineteenth-century paintings , many not of museum quality , remain on show . |
| 30 | It is worth emphasizing that the sequence is one of period-doubling , not of frequency doubling . |